Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-08-03
EASTERN STsOEE.
Rebuilding tie Burned District of
Onancocl-Oiherl Items.
(correspoDcencs Of the Richmond Dispatch.l

(CorreepoDcence 81 the hichmond DiSpatch.I
OSANCoCE, August |, 1887.
The work of rebuilding that portion
Of the town that was destroyed by fire
last April is going rapidly ahead. Mr..
W. ID. Lewis has almost completed his
large and slightly storehouse on the
site of the one that was burned.
Messrs. Slocomb & Ames's new double
store is fast nearing completion, end
will be ready for occupancy in
few weeks. 1t is q large two
story structure fifty feet front
and ore hundred feet deep, fronting
on both Main and King streets. 1t
will be fitted up in regular city style,
and, when completed, will be the
largest and best-equipped storehouse
on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.
Carpenters are also at work rebuilding
Mr.. VI. Il. Hallett's store on the same
street, and the frame work Of Colonel
parkers new hotel has been set up.
This building WI be three stories high,
and Will be finished and furnished in
srch Style as to reflect credit on this
growing town anl prosperous section
Of the State. Other stores are to
be put up in the fall, and by
the time winter sets in nearly all the
empty spaces III tho burned districts will
be filed with larger and better houses
than ever before. A largo number of
dwelling houses, several of them large
and handsome structures, are going up
in the mean tine, and still the demand
for houses is greater than the supply.
Amopg t.ose who have recently
moved TO the town is Lieutenant Wilde,
commanding the ~ United States
Revenue marine for this dis
trict.
Contrary to tho gloomy antica-
p.,ions OF many people here who
thought tho town was almost ruined by
the terrible contlagration last April,
Onancock is enjoying a tirst-class build
ing boom, and the prospect for in
creased business is very bright. Thus
far all attempts to build up new towns
at the adjacent stations on the line of
the railroad have utterly failed, and
Cnancock, with her spleldid facilities
for transportation by water and rail,
is forging rapidly ahead in tbe march
of material prosperity.
TIE schools here are also far better
than anywhere else on tho Eastern
Shore. 1he Onancock Academy, phi
waite school OF high grade for both
sexes, draws large patronage from
all pals of the peninsula, its total
ate ndance for the last year having
been seyenty-eight pupils. The public
schools here are alsoof superior quality.
These educational facilities unite with
other considerations to bring large ac-
cossions every year to the population OF
the toSn.
The Northern Methodsts are still
holding their camp-meeting at Park
slcy station. in spite OF the large
crowds attending every day and night,
good order has been preserved. SIEVE
raj Jugs have been captured by the
preachers, and one or two arrests have
been made. The meeting VIII close
tomorrow. Next week the Southern
MCthodists VII begin their annual
cGmp.meoting at the Eas.ern-Shore
Fair-Grounds, in tho southern part of
Accomack.
The colored people will hold half
dozen or more camp meetings in this
county before the season closes. One
is already in full blast at Modest Town,
III the northern part of the county.
The colored Baptists will have camp
meeting near Onancock week after
net. IT will be seen from this that
the old-fashioned camp-meetings which
have almost entirely disappeared from
the upland regions of Virginia still
flourish in all their native vigor on the
Easte.n Shore.
Some weeks ago Mr.. Ellison Hop
kius, the Oldest resident of Onancock,
died in the eighty-sixth year of his age,
and yesterday his grandson, William
OtLo Warren, aged eighteen, died at
FunGoteague of consumption. He was
buried from the Baptist church here
this afternoon.
he Eastern Shore delegates to the
Ecanoks convention left ON the early
train this morning. kALLIAs.